Zander Clark only signed for Queens on Friday and 24 hours later was doing his bit between the posts as his new side slumped to a narrow defeat at Dundee.

The St Johnstone goalie will be at Palmerston for a month after injury ruled out Calum Antell from Saturday’s away tie and is happy for the experience.

After the match he said: “I’m delighted to have made my debut for the club. The gaffer has given me a chance and St Johnstone have let me come out on loan for a month so it’s good for me to get games under my belt.

“We’ll wait and see how long Calum is out for but I thought I did well today.

“It was an absolute bog out there.The first one was a great strike and on another day it would have gone wider but I did all I could with it and he’s dinked it over, so you’ve got to give him credit for that cause it’s a great bit of skill from him and the second one is just some strike, I’ve got across well it’s just pace that’s beaten me in the end.”

Having joined a club in the middle of a slump - he believes just like manager Jim McIntyre that there are plenty of positives at Queen of the South.

Clark continued: “We just need to keep sticking strong, plodding away and things will start to turn for us I’ve not been at any of the other games but the boys are saying that things aren’t going our way just now, but if we stick with it hopefully things will start to change, we’ve had the one that came off the bar and on another day they go in.

“The boys showed the great team spirit we’ve got at the club, I’ve noticed that since I’ve come in. The boys are all together, they’re a great bunch, it’s a great dressing room everybody has got each other’s back and as you see when we go 1-0 down its easy for the heads to go down but the boys stayed strong and we got the equaliser and it’s just a sickener to lose it so late on but as I say we just need to keep plugging away and maybe next week things will turn for us.

“Everybody has been great, the two days I’ve been in training, everybody has been upbeat, everybody has been looking forward to the game, there’s nobody down about the form, because everybody knows the boys have been playing well, it’s just bits of misfortune.

“I’ve seen the video from last week and there’s another one that comes off the bar, but when you’re down there on a wee slump these things seem to happen - things don’t go for you and as a say the boys will stick together, I know that the gaffer has got it drilled into them and everybody is staying strong and as I say hopefully things will start to turn.”

The goalkeeper is also eyeing a few more starts while on loan from Premiership St Johnstone.

He finished: “Hopefully I can keep playing, I know Calum well and he’s a good keeper so I know I’m not going to come here and go straight in to playing so hopefully I can but if it doesn’t work out that way then I’m just happy to have got a game under my belt against good opposition, they are favourites for the league and we more than matched them. As I say I just hope I can get more games.”